Cote
IE CA IR-1/1/2/1/19
Titre
Recollections of visits made to Kevin Barry and other republican prisoners
Date(s)
- 1920-1921 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
17 pp; Manuscript
Nom du producteur
(24 October 1877-14 February 1925)
Dépôt
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Portée et contenu
Recollections of visits made to Kevin Barry (executed 1 Nov. 1920); to ‘six young heroes hanged at Mountjoy Prison, March 14th 1921’; and to Thomas Traynor (executed 26 Apr. 1921). The recollections refer to visits made by unnamed religious sisters. The transcripts focus on the piety and courage shown by the condemned prisoners. It reads: ‘All the young men were teetotallers and some of them abstained from smoking. We noticed two empty porter bottles in the grate in Flood’s cell. When he saw me looking at them he said “you know our friends can bring us in now anything one asks for. The Black and Tan guards here are decent to us and we ordered in drink for them”’.